Our Back To School Essential: EyeBuyDirect

According to the Vision Impact Institute, three out of every four Americans have vision correction. Of those people, 71 percent wear eyeglasses. With such a large portion of the population needing glasses, buying and changing your glasses should be something that is convenient, reasonably priced, and fun. Up until now the process of getting new eyewear has always been time consuming and expensive. Often you are stuck with the same pair for years just because you don’t want to go through the hassle of getting a new pair. Not any more. EyeBuyDirect is an ingenious company that makes buying hip glasses and sunglasses for men and women, easy, affordable, and actually pretty fun! With prescription eyewear starting at only $6, why can’t you buy a new pair of glasses…or five? EyeBuyDirect wants your glasses to match your personality; they want them to be an extension of you. Why shouldn’t your glasses or sunglasses be? You don’t wear the same shoes everyday, why should you have to wear the same glasses? Since 2005, EyeBuyDirect has been offering high quality affordable eyewear. They have appeared all over the press for their impressive selection of eyewear. What could be better as a college student than having a pair of glasses or sunglasses to wear to class, work, Mugby, or the Smaug? We decided we had to check out EyeBuyDirect for ourselves.

We were both in the market for prescription sunglasses. We wanted pairs that were not too expensive, but still of high quality so that we knew they would last. At first, we were nervous about ordering eyewear online. How would we know if something would look good on us, how would we know if it was good quality, and even, how do we read our prescriptions? Shopping at Eyebuydirect.com eased our mind when making this purchase decision. First off, the website offers a 14 day fit and style guarantee. If we received our glasses and we didn’t love them we could return them within 14 days for a free exchange or refund. (We didn’t even need to worry about this, we both loved our new sunglasses.) To also aid in the fit process, you can upload a picture of yourself and virtually try on different styles of glasses all from the comfort of your couch. To ensure that their eyewear is quality, EyeBuyDirect has a 365-day product guarantee that warrants against defects in their materials or workmanship for a full year. Another concern we originally had was how to read our prescription given by our eye doctor. For others like us, the website provided a “how to read a prescription” tutorial video. That quick video made us feel confident that we would order the right prescription for ourselves. Eyebuydirect.com also has videos on their website about how to buy prescription sunglasses online, what your pupillary distance is, and even a video on frames to compliment your face shape. All of the resources that they provide made us feel confident in shopping online for eyewear and made the whole process a lot less confusing.

We each specialized our order to fit our liking. We picked frames, the “Malibu” style in tortoise shell for Hannah and the “Bali” in black and gold for Courtney. We then selected our lens color, tint, strength and type. Finally, we entered our prescription information and proceeded to checkout. We received emails from the company updating us on what stage of production they were on and when they expect to be shipping out our sunglasses. We were both pleasantly surprised and pleased with the company’s personalized communication with their customers.The quality alone will make us want to shop at EyeBuyDirect again. When we each got our sunglasses, we were so happy with the product. It even came with a stylish case and cloth. EyeBuyDirect is definitely a must for every fashionable college student.

Check out EyeBuyDirect yourself at www.eyebuydirect.com and don’t forget to look at their discount coupons for this week. Especially the current buy one get one deal when you use the code “BOGO” at checkout!

Make sure to enter our WSU Back to School Essentials drawing going on until September 14. You could win a fabulous pair of EyeBuyDirect sunglasses by taking a picture on Instagram of your back to school must haves. Don’t forget to tag us and use our hashtag, #WSUSchoolEssentials.